Welcome to Raw Data By P3 Adaptive.

What We Learned at the Fabric Conference

A Framework for Spotting Legitimate AI Use Cases

“Hallucination” is Just a Fancy Word for Being Wrong

Adjacent and Between: Demystifying Digital Transformation with Power Apps and Power Automate

There is no SUM Function, w/ Matt Allington

Reevaluating the Role of Industry Expertise: Tradeoffs Between Specialization and Adaptation

A Lesson in Recent History Cures Today’s AI Uncertainty

Reimagining the Three Core Financial Reports w/ Daniel Harley

Are You Getting the Most Out of Power BI?

A Transformational Power BI Success Story at Medtronic w/ Luciano Miranda

Listening to Your Stakeholders is Harder Than You Think

AI Isn’t Scary When You Break it Down: Five Use Cases Approachable Today

Inline Analytics Doesn’t Mean What You Suspect it Means, w/Ryan Spahr

Creating a Theater of Excitement in Analytics, w/ Austin Senseman

Getting Unstuck and Unlocking Ambition w/ Kristal Searle

FOBO – The Fear of Becoming Obsolete (And How to Navigate It)

The I in “BI” Stands for Improvement

Ten Business Upgrades Within Your Reach in 2024

Fabric – It’s GA (GO) Time!

Should we be skeptical about Microsoft Fabric?

The Fruit of the Electric Grapevine: Industry-Leading Visibility on Limited Resources, w/ Jack Irby

Mailbag #1: Python, Fabric, and Mullets oh my!

Fabric is Nothing, But it’s also Everything

True North Versus Magnetic North w/Jeff Jorgensen

Sometimes it is Rocket Science w/ Szilvia Juhasz

Matching Data Workloads with the Right Hardware w/ Steve Orrin

KPIs for Dance Club DJs w/ Paul Ray

There Are No CSV Files in Norway w/ MS MVP Cathrine Wilhelmsen

Zen and the Art of Knowing When to Jump Ship w/ Chris Wagner

Let’s Argue About BestMovieCast.net w/ Dave Rivera

Only Amateurs Name Drop Steve Ballmer, w/ Mike Nichols

Like Throwing Water on Gremlins, w/ Fred Kaffenberger

Bill Gates Needed a Chair

Put Some Adventure On Your Taco, w/ Dan Battagin

Rebooting Excel and Reinventing Ourselves, w/ Charlie Ellis

Good Design is the Cake, Not the Icing, w/ Brad Weed

Readily Ticket’s Series of Fortunate Events, w/ David Wood

The Impostor Syndrome World Championships, w/ Jocelyn Collie

Quickbooks Analytics When You Can’t Find the ‘Any’ Key w/ Chuck Vigeant

Environmental Engineering Meets the Data Gene, w/ MS MVP Alice Drummond

The DAX Draft

Pragmatic Works is a Two Word Sentence, w/ Brian Knight

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chicago, w/Nicole Janeway Bills

The Elevator Pitch for Power BI, w/ Microsoft MVP Belinda Allen

Something Bigger than Yourself, w/ Microsoft’s Miguel Escobar

A Guest Fit for the 100th Episode, w/ Justin Mannhardt

Power Query Saves Christmas w/ Gus Miranda

Why is Everything So Slow w/ Scott Louvau

Soaring the Skies of OPTIMIZEDAX(), w/ Narayana Windenberger

Excel is the Most Functional of Programming Languages w/ Simon Peyton Jones

Career Switchers Have the Power (Platform), w/ Microsoft’s April Dunnam

Cloud Services Used to Be Really Dumb w/ Eric Vigesaa

Women In Data w/ Sadie St. Lawrence

Pokémon Go Maps are a Green Technology, w/ Mike Ellis

The Cloud is Powered by People w/ Jeff DeVerter

Setting Up For Success w/David McKinnis

The Software Hall of Fame, w/ Microsoft’s Conor Cunningham

A Most Generous Mentor, w/ Microsoft’s Dany Hoter

Technophobes Make Amazing Technologists, w/ Kerry Kolosko

Tinkering is a Way of Life w/Darinee Louvau

“MVPness” Doesn’t Sound Quite Right w/ MS MVP Ed Hansberry

You’ve Gotta (Bruce) Buffer Your Data w/ Alex Sanabria

Actuaries Put the “X” in DAX, w/Philip Trick

A Mechanical Clutch Isn’t a Steampunk Purse, w/ Bill Sundwall

The Evolution of SharePoint w/Denise Trabona and Adam Harmetz

What is Data May Never Die, w/ Scree

Crypto-Fantasy Leftists are an Exclusive Tribe, w/ Davis Mattek

Trustworthy Data for a Healthy Democracy, w/ USAFacts’ Poppy MacDonald

BI Have the Power, w/ Johnny Winter of Greyskull Analytics

Office’s Relevance to the Power Platform Crowd, w/ Tristan Davis

The Relentless Pursuit of a Better Way w/ Liz Rogers

Writing your Data Adventure, w/ Blythe Morrow

Into the Dataverse w/ James Oleinik

Mapping the Road to Innovation, w/ Mike Reynolds

Small Biz, Big Impact w/ Fran Reed

The Freediving, Meditating Data Translator, w/ Allison Kennedy

The Power Platform is for Kids Too, w/ Zara and Zenubia Khan

Going Bananas for Data, w/ Jeff Lingen

The Return of the Revenge of Matt Selig

From FP&A to Global Director of Data, w/ Khaled Chowdhury

ML & Algorithms Hit the Bigtime, w/ DataRobot’s Diego Oppenheimer

Falling Iguanas and Fantastic Intelligence, w/ Priscilla Camp

Escher’s Lazy River w/Chris Haas

Even Undead Lords Love Data w/Scree

The Numbers that Didn’t Exist, with Tim Rodman

Be Careful with that Umfahren, w/ Lars Schreiber

Stay Away from Guadalcanal, w/ Olivier Travers

MS Data Platform International Man Of Mystery

An Anthropologist Goes Corporate, w/ Geoff McNeely

Geoster

Gifted Kids Gone Wild, w/ Luke the Producer

Happy Holidays!

Hawking Data and Stymying Offenses, w/ Coach Chase Hargis

The Hawk

Birth of a Data-Driven Salesperson, w/ Carson Heady

Birth Of A (Good Human) Salesperson

Protect the Spots with NO Bulletholes, w/ Adam Harstad

Adam Harstad is BACK!

The Life of a WW2 Navy Pilot Cadet (Bonus), w/ Bob Pop Collie

Navy Stories and more!

A Data Wildling Goes Embedded, w/ Mary Fealty

Analytics Wildling

Free Range Analytics, w/ Angel Abundez

Director of Client Services, P3 Adaptive

The Spirit of “Why Not” with Bob Pop Collie

Raw Data's 50th Episode!

Leaders Need Not be Flashy, w/ Microsoft VP Dave Gainer

Jedi Master of Leadership

M is for Imke, w/ Imke Feldmann

Power BI OG

Septic Companions and Breaded Capacitors, w/ Chris Rae

Co-Creator, MyCoast.Org

The Power Ranking Godfather, w/ Jeff Sagarin & Wayne Winston

99% is the New Zero, w/ Microsoft Director Shelly Avery

Director-US Healthcare Specialist, Microsoft

The Plural of Alex is Alex, w/ Alex Dupler and Alex Powers

Two Alex

Speak Softly but Pack a Mean Elbow, w/ Jen Stirrup

The Data Whisperer

Epistemic Path Dependency, w/ Adam Harstad

Epistemic Path Dependency
with Adam Harstad

For Those About to DAX, w/ Microsoft’s Greg Beaumont

Senior Business Intelligence Specialist, Microsoft

Spreadsheet Celebrities & Power BI Playdates, w/ Chandoo

Hear from the Mozart of Excel Dashboards: Chandoo

The Data Lakehouse: Brick by Brick, w/ Databricks’ Denny Lee

Sr. Staff Developer Advocate, Databricks

Excel Past/Present/Future, w/ Excel Head of Product Brian Jones

Head of Product, Excel-Microsoft

Robotic Process Automation for All, w/ Microsoft’s Ashvini Sharma

Group Program Manager-Power Automate RPA, Microsoft

Rob Collie Explains Why Raw Data Has Been Silent

The Invention of Skippable YouTube Ads, w/ Shishir Mehrotra

Co-Founder and CEO, Coda

COVID Basement Racquetball, w/ Microsoft’s Vishal Lodha

Strategic Account Director, Microsoft

Surfing the Changing Seas of Data, w/ Microsoft’s Chris Webb

Principal Program Manager-Power BI Customer Advisory Team, Microsoft

The Keanu Reeves of Data, w/ Evan Rhodes

Director of Client Services, P3 Adaptive

A Different Kind of Data Emergency, w/ Derek Rickard

Chief Data Officer, Emergency Reporting

Earth’s Only Hope vs. Alien Excel Invaders, w/ Ken Puls

President and Chief Training Officer, Excelguru Consulting Inc.

Wolverine Sold Gym Memberships, w/ Ryan Bergstrom

Director Of Client Services, P3 Adaptive

Cat Memes Built my Data Model, w/ Krissy Dyess

Director Of Client Services, P3 Adaptive

Data Gandalf’s Growing Revolution, w/ Gordon Rowe III

Special Ops at North Creek Nurseries

Intelligence Platform is a Cool Name, w/ Microsoft CVP Arun Ulag

Corporate Vice President of the Business Intelligence Platform at Microsoft

Yoda Chong and the Treehouse of Wonder, w/ Donald Farmer

Principal, Treehive Strategy

The Dutchman of Data Dunked on Me, w/ Kasper de Jonge

Analytics Advisor and Principal Program Manager-Power BI, Microsoft

The Origins of Power Query, w/ Sid Jayadevan and Miguel Llopis

Co-Creators of Power Query

Everyone’s in the Middle, w/ Former NFL QB Hugh Millen

Former NFL Quarterback and Data Nerd

A Single Complete Leader, w/ P3 Pres & COO Kellan Danielson

President and COO, P3 Adaptive

Marine Biology Leads to Power Platforming, w/ Chuck Sterling

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Crimefighting with a Data Model, w/ John Hancock

CEO, Hubstream

The OG Internet Tech Celebrity, w/ MrExcel’s Bill Jelen

Mr. Excel

Timely Supply Chains and Double Data Genes, w/ Jon Perl

CEO, Noah Technologies

Data Chefs Can Come From Anywhere, w/ Gartner’s Lori Rodriguez

Vice President Executive Programs at Gartner

The Public Face of Power BI, w/ Adam Saxton of Guy in a Cube

Guy In A Cube

Scrubbing Data & Beating COVID, w/ Matt Selig of Bar Keepers Friend

Exec. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Human Resources Officer at SerVaas Labs

The Data Witches, w/ Shannon Lindsay & Stephanie Bruno

Shannon Lindsay-Microsoft Certified Data and Analytics Professional &
Stephanie Bruno-Associate Director of Informatics at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

The Query Store’s Open for Biz, w/ Microsoft’s Conor Cunningham

Partner Software Architect, SQL Server Engine-Microsoft

The Internet of Things Goes to the Museum, w/ Austin Senseman

Founder and CEO of Conserv

One of the World’s Most Amazing Humans, w/ Matt Allington

Power BI Consultant, Trainer, & Microsoft MVP

Hostages and Volunteers Both Love Booze, w/ Paul Boynton

Principal Consultant-P3

Hopefully you Like Hope Foley, w/ Microsoft’s Hope Foley

Data & AI Cloud Solutions Architect-Microsoft

The Man of a Thousand Jobs, w/ Kevin Overstreet

Project Manager specializing in SharePoint and BI applications

Michael Salfino Post Election Show

Owner, Meadowlands Media Group & Journalist for The Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, & The Independent

Mark Cuban Crashed my Lecture, w/ IU’s Dr. Wayne Winston

Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University

Pokerbots, Adware, and Burning Man, w/ Brad Miller & Kai Hankinson

Co-Owners of Agree Media

The Persistent Power of Pagination, w/ Microsoft’s Chris Finlan

Principal Program Manager-Power BI Team at Microsoft

Data is Pretty Sweet in the C-Suite, w/ Joe Phelan

Retired-Experienced CEO, COO, Executive Director & current Non-Executive Director

Hybrid Professionals Dominate the Decathlon, w/ Michael Salfino

Owner, Meadowlands Media Group & Journalist for The Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, & The Independent

SQL Batman Didn’t Want to Be a Data Janitor, w/ Thomas LaRock

Head Geek-SolarWinds & Co-Host of Raw Data By P3